Monthly Archives: August 2014

Love is Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

August 25, 2014 – 12:01 pm

Love is Never Having to Say You’re Sorry is a famous line from the 1970 film LOVE STORY. Farangs are amazed by the infrequency of times that Thais saying they’re sorry. The word does exist as Khor-Todt, whose etymology stems from two Thai words; Khor or throat and Todt or fart. Throat-fart. Sorry, but maybe […]

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle FREE

August 25, 2014 – 11:49 am

FAMOUS FOR NEVER is a semi-fictional recounting of a ne’er-do-well living in the East Village during the 1970s, Paris through the 1980s, and Asia into the 1990s. Peter Nolan Smith’s pingponging around the world has ricochetted him through the ranks of the famous and near-famous such as Jean Michel-Basquiat and Klaus Nomi without success ever […]

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Ava Gardner Forever

August 23, 2014 – 8:55 pm

No words. Set the Time Machine for 1950. Cast me as Burt Lancaster.

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Skinny Marilyn

August 23, 2014 – 6:39 pm

Marilyn Monroe was a goddess. I loved her in SOME LIKE IT HOT and worshipped her in THE RIVER OF NO RETURN. Zaftig beauties across the USA have pointed to Marilyn Monroe as the ideal female form rather than the bone thin models gracing the covers of fashion magazines. Her size has been debated by […]

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HE AIN’T HEAVY, HE’S MY BROTHER by the Hollies

August 21, 2014 – 7:35 pm

That 1960s Hollies hit gets plenty of play in Pattaya, only bargirls have changed to words to suit their need for subterfuge. “He not boyfriend. He my brother.” The tenacles of an extended Thai family are more tangled than a cluster of fornicating rattlesnakes. The second cousin of a third aunt from your sister’s second marriage is […]

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